Oh, yes you do, Craig in Arcata!

I saw you as a contributor to that thread - I remember recognizing some of your posts. As to which ones, well, you'll have to allow me to check the posts so that I can...

Oh yeah! That's right! THE ENTIRE THREAD WAS DELETED FOR NO GODDAMNED REASON!!!

C'mon, Craig in Arcata! Can't you see he needs to be stopped. He has a history - every tribe he moderates is prone to 'accidents'.

No more, I say!

I extend my hand to you, Craig in Arcata. If the next moderator is someone in a coma, at least we can be assured there won't be any mysterious schenanigans. Let's keep this tribe as a record of our rememberences - not as a shrine to tyranny. That guy has killed his last post by myself...

Rationality can be such a wet blanket to revolutionary procession...

But, you do make a compelling point. As to that, Light-smotherer has a disturbing and well documented history of deleting threads. One of the best threads of this tribe, in fact, was summarily executed at the apparent whim of our 'dear leader'; anyone remember the "Movie Quotes that have infiltrated your life" thread? Huh? Huh? Ehhh...

It was really fun sharing (and hearing) about the influences movie lines have on everyone's life. To make it extra poignant, reading those posts conveyed an immediate intimacy with those who chose to share in that forum. I felt close to, and strangely connected to, those people who read my entries, and shared their own. I am an expatriate, living in Mexico, and one of the urgent reasons for my involvement in Tribe is to speak English for awhile everyday. I implore you imagine the vehicles and means of establishing intimacy with another human being...it begins with shared experiences and instances (even pop culture references) about particular cultures that you've both experienced - although from differing viewpoints. I cannot speak of the comedic actors of the golden age of Mexican cinema - I grew up in the states. Now all those links, the exact devices, that precipitated a connection with a small group of seeming strangers is gone...

No explanation, no mea culpa, no remorse! I have seen his handy work at play in another tribe as well where any conflicting opinions to his own sacred cows are run down and terminated (with similar dismissive silence and smugness).

Now, back to the goal. I WANT BLOOD! WHO"S WITH ME?

I am conducting some inquiries, Hypno, about how our current 'moderator' came to lord over this fiefdom.

I think it may have been a normal takeover. I have no reason to think it was some hostile takeover or had a certain stink about it. But I'm not sure at this point. I'll get back to you with links to our so-called 'light-lover'...

Sorry! Sorry! Brent!
I meant Jay.

Craig in Arcata

Craig et al.,

'Blight-lover' does not have to resign. There seems a clear consensus that Jay can be Moderator. What happens now is that Jay simply writes an email addressed to help@tribe.net with the subject line "New Moderator - <<World's Best Movie Quotes>>". Jay, make sure you include the following link, as well, in the body of the text of the email:

moviequotes.tribe.net/thread/...7893260a

Then the council of overlords at Tribe looks over the links, checks the voting chain for irregularities, pushes the appropriate button and then we are free at last, thank god almighty we'll be free at last...

Jay is our guy. How appropriate too, since he created the thread that was deleted and led this fine band into open revolutionary warfare.

Long Live the Heroes of the Revolution!